The other day I inherited a repo from someone that left the company. The first one to be almost fully vibe coded.
It's horrible. It's over engineered in every way. It follows a completely different pattern than the other repos. It adds 10 CLI options that don't have any use (why does Claude add --threads to everything). It's impossible to follow the flow of the code.
Of course, days after I inherited it, it broke so good luck to me fixing it I guess
That's not true at all. One thing is not understanding the language in which it was written and a completely different one is that even though it was coded in a language that I have proficiency in, the code doesn't make sense. It's just poorly engineered
You would be surprised to find out that people were telling exactly the same thing about e.g. C when they came from Assembler and saw what a "pile of shit" was produced by the compiler.
What could theoretically be an even higher level programming language?
Bytecode is obviously not human readable - lets make Assembly.
Assembly requires very specific skills - lets make a language that is more human readable.
This new language is way more readable but requires very specific skills like understanding computer memory. Lets make a language that takes care of it.
Lets make a language that is not compiled but interpreted. Lets make a language where you can just simply write 1 + 2 and computer would just give you an answer and you don't need to define anything.
Lets make the language that is simply a natural language and computer interprets it an writes the program you need itself.
We are comparing because any programming language is just a try to make programming easier.
gonzalohm · · focus · HN ↗
It's horrible. It's over engineered in every way. It follows a completely different pattern than the other repos. It adds 10 CLI options that don't have any use (why does Claude add --threads to everything). It's impossible to follow the flow of the code. Of course, days after I inherited it, it broke so good luck to me fixing it I guess
AndrewThrowaway · · focus · HN ↗
You will not edit Assembly in this.
Claude will have to edit it and Claude will not whine.
gonzalohm · · focus · HN ↗
I refuse to keep adding shit to the pile
AndrewThrowaway · · focus · HN ↗
gonzalohm · · focus · HN ↗
Natural language is not a programming language and cannot be compiled
AndrewThrowaway · · focus · HN ↗
Bytecode is obviously not human readable - lets make Assembly. Assembly requires very specific skills - lets make a language that is more human readable. This new language is way more readable but requires very specific skills like understanding computer memory. Lets make a language that takes care of it. Lets make a language that is not compiled but interpreted. Lets make a language where you can just simply write 1 + 2 and computer would just give you an answer and you don't need to define anything.
Lets make the language that is simply a natural language and computer interprets it an writes the program you need itself.
We are comparing because any programming language is just a try to make programming easier.